The Kimpton Goodland Hotel -- Fort Lauderdale is Kimpton's seventh property in Florida.
The Kimpton Goodland Hotel -- Fort Lauderdale Beach is set to open in April on the site of one of the city's pioneering hotels.
The 96-room, boutique property is an adaptive re-use of the first hotel opened by George Gill in 1950, the Escape. It was the first year-round resort on Fort Lauderdale beach, and Gill went on to build the Sheraton Yankee Clipper and Yankee Trader hotels, among others.
The new hotel will span three two-story buildings, inclusive of an eclectic American restaurant and nearly 500-square-foot private dining room. It will have a fitness center and two private pools, - one on the ground level and the other atop the neighboring residences' eighth floor rooftop.